Does a Muslim have to be a self described Islamist for a 'hate crime' to be upgraded to terrorism?

Anyone?

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We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

On the one hand I have sympathy for the argument about it 'always being terrorists' in the vein of it being a way for the media to throw more FEAR out there; but there is also this strange attempt to explain away Islamic Terrorism, where the religion has nothing to do with the crimes they commit and all to do with the nationalistic thrust injected it by the pan-Arabism of the 1950s.

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We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.